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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1997
Karin Marz, Mainz, DE;
Dieter Mohr, Appenheim, DE;
Dieter Bodenheimer, Aarbergen, DE;
Manfred Hilger, Konz, DE;
Agfa-Gevaert, Mortsel, BE;
Abstract
A process for producing a colored image by laminating a light-sensitive material comprising a temporary support film (i), a colored light-sensitive layer and a heat-activable adhesive layer onto an image-receiving material at elevated temperature and under pressure, subjecting the light-sensitive layer to imagewise exposure and developing by peeling off the support film, characterized in that the image-receiving material comprises a light-sensitive compound which, on irradiation, releases a gas which remains trapped in the image-receiving material in the form of gas bubbles. The advantage of the process is that, on irradiation under a halftone original, the size of the halftone dots in the coloured image produced on such an image-receiving material is optically reduced.